146 sats \ 18 replies \ @Undisciplined 3 May \ parent \ on: Jack Dorsey answers “Why the hell are you all spending so much time on bitcoin?” bitcoin
Considering his record as a professed proponent of free speech who created the biggest censorship apparatus ever, I think it's fair to be skeptical of him.
I think its possible to also take a more charitable view of him. After all, Jack was just a tech kid building websites because he liked to code.
Running a company of that size is hard. Damn near impossible. Its hard to control 1000s of different view points and 1000s of different agendas, when each may be working against your own in various ways.
Moreover, in the end Twitter was compromised by the intelligence community. It should be no surprise that they were successful, since that is their entire job. They know how to push narratives into organizations, find internal champions for those narratives, and then apply subtle external pressure to force the organization into the path it wants them to go.
The idea that a tech wizkid was going to be suited to control that beast or able to deflect against the government attacks is naive. I dont know this, but I suspect that Jack is overjoyed he is out of Twitter and probably will never seek to ever get involved with another "social media company" ever again.
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Thats why you have to get a good support system.
As the CEO, he should have had people that he trusted to help him figure out who was worthwhile to keep.
Musk made the right decision to fire all those people that were bloating the company. It was all dead weight.
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I'm not exactly being uncharitable. For whatever reasons, and I essentially agree with the ones you gave, he couldn't manifest his principles in his business and that may happen in his current ventures.
Maybe he's learned whatever lessons he needed to learn. I hope that's the case, since he says most of the right things most of the time.
Running a social media company was a poor fit especially one popular with public figures. His new ventures fit his personality better
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You don't have to be opposed to anything he's doing, but it's fair to acknowledge that he has a mixed track record when it comes to living up to his stated principles.
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Agree
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He wasn’t the owner of twitter once it went public. Even as a startup I don’t think he was the biggest shareholder.
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4.7 percent and he ceded voting control of his shares to Evan Williams
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I think he was checked out years ago. He was not involved day to day. That’s no excuse because a CEO should pretend to care about the company
He had other companies too like cash app and square. After twitter went public he focused more energy on other ventures.
Maybe he was under contract to remain as CEO? He definitely should have resigned and left earlier than he did.
Actually let me correct myself because I am too lazy to edit and delete. When Elon purchased Twitter, Jack was the chairman not CEO.